Our General Assembly in Maribor in March 2015 adopted UBIE’s current strategy, which defines the following four main goals for our work:

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Levy support in the EU Institutions and stakeholders and facilitate cooperation between them

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Make UBI a hot topic of the mainstream world

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Assert the feasibility of, and arguments for, UBI and make it a credible and attractive alternative for Europe

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Activate and grow UBIE while making it appealing, fun and friendly!

We work towards these objectives in the form of projects and campaigns, ongoing lobbying at EU level and in regular meetings across Europe.

Projects

In order to advance towards our strategic goals, UBIE has decided to focus on the following practical projects:

Projects

In order to advance towards our strategic goals, UBIE has decided to focus on the following practical projects:

Basic Income Pilots

Unconditional Basic Income Europe advocates for more basic income experiments throughout Europe based on jointly agreed minimum criteria, and calls on the European Union to co-finance those as well as their joint scientific evaluation. Basic income pilots are now a hot topic…Read more

Eurodividend

Europe needs bolder and stronger instruments to counter the forces of disintegration. The Eurodividend – a partial basic income paid to all Europeans – could become the policy instrument that safeguards the EU and especially the Eurozone from asymmetric economic shocks and reconciles citizens with the idea of European integration.Read more

Agrarian Basic Income

As the current industrial food system is stuck in a structural crisis regarding environmental degradation, health issues and pressures on farmers livelihood, we propose considering the transformative potential of a basic income as an innovative food policy tool to further the transition towards fairer and more sustainable food systems.Read more

FutureLAB - Immersing into the idea of basic income

How does it feel to live in a society with a basic income? How would basic income affect my personal way of life? How would basic income become reality? What might the outcome be when people accept and deal with the freedom and responsibility linked to a basic income?Read more

Lobbying

On several occasions we have managed to get unconditional basic income discussed in the European Parliament and in the Council of Europe. We submitted our position on the EU’s Social Pillar consultation to the European Commission, gave evidence to the Council of Europe, and addressed Members of the European Parliament to refer to unconditional basic income in reports on the future of the welfare state in Europe. We continue to bring the debate on basic income to the attention of European decision makers.

Meetings

We have found that in order to work well together across vast distances we need to meet regularly face to face. Our meetings usually include public conferences in the localities about unconditional basic income, and also some time to work on our projects together. Due to lack of funds for interpretation, our meetings are normally in English. Whenever we manage to obtain funding, though, we try to offer bilingual meetings to make it easier for local participants to join in.We have one General Assembly every year, and usually two or three other meetings at other times during the year. So far we have met in Brussels, Athens, Maribor, Budapest, Maastricht, Hamburg, Madrid, Ljubljana, London. Our next meeting will be in Lisbon to coincide with the 2017 BIEN Congress.